On International Law of Treaty Interpretation/ Sur Le Droit International de L'interpretation des Traites (Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION The general rules of treaty interpretation under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) have already been recognized as the customary international laws in many practices of application to settle international disputes even though a dozens of nations have not ratified or signed the VCLT. This article takes references mainly based on the leading cases made by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in last decade, and intents to explore practices of treaty interpretation and some theoretical issues of treaty interpretation.